Whole+Foods

One of my slides, #11, doesn't show up very well. (red color is intended to show what is important) For the PPT for class, may want to lighten up the background so the red shows up better, the green is a little dark. If not, no big deal. 1 in 6 chance of getting called upon. See ya in a few. Tom

Yes, I can cover the first 3 slides.

See you guys tonight. Ray



Thanks, Kyle _
 * Jeremy and I talked tonight about the SWOT, Internal Analysis, Future Challenges and Recommendations. We'll care for those pieces in the presentation.
 * Ray if you'd like to open with the first three slides for an overview that would be awesome.
 * Tom and Dan (slides look great) we're assuming you're splitting up your slides to present.
 * Unless someone else has planned on formatting the slides, I'll go through tonight and apply a template and some Whole Foods images.
 * Please let me know if there are any additional changes tonight or in the morning. I'll bring the slides to class on a flash drive and I'll post a final on here.

__I think a couple of separate slides from Kyle on internal analysis might be good. I forgot about that word doc below and there are some good ideas/points in there. Also, let me know what you would like me to present on. Sounds like this is all divivded up pretty well but I can cover any slides in the presentation you would like. Also, for next week I can take a bulk of the presentation on the golf industry. I used to be an assistant golf pro before I decided to join the corporate world so I might be able to have some different insights.

thanks, Ray

I added the Future Challenges as more of a segway from the SWOT Analysis into our recommendations, Kyle was going to add a couple slides for the Internal Analysis (he has some ideas on his WORD doc) but we may be able to just combine the two (challenges and internal analysis). When presenting are we just going to split the sections up based on what we worked off of? (example Kyle and I will split up the last part of the presentation - SWOT, Challenges/Anlysis, Recommendations.

Thanks, Jeremy



I added a couple of points. Also, is the "Future Challenges" section the internal analysis of Whole Foods? If so, should we call it out a little more? If we don't have an internal analysis I can put some slides together, just let me know. This looks great though!

Fixed a couple of things on my slides - added questions before the topics



One Option for PPT I am running 2007 Powerpoint by the way so editing to another version is a boogar.

Here is 4 and 5 - I think. I did not format the same. Will do later if needed. What other topics do we need to cover? I did not insert into the overall powerpoint. Will do when I get home in a couple of hours unless someone beats me to it. Tom__

I've added slides 8-14 for WF Strategy (topic 6 from class). Comments and critiques are welcome.

Thanks, Dan McLindon

I have added the first 3 topics to the slides that I posted earlier. Dan if you and Tom want to add your slides, they would go before slide 8 which has the questions about strenth, weaknesses, oppts and threats (before the SWOT slide). Please check over these slides and feel free to change anything you guys want.

Thanks, Jeremy _

Guys,

I am working on the slides for the first 3 Topics that we discussed in class. I should have them posted later this afternoon, I am shooting for 2PM (saturday).

Thanks, Jeremy__ _

Sorry for the delay on my part, busy week at work. I'll get some slides out around noon tomorrow. Tom, I had jotted down that I had section 6 (Strategy of Wholefoods). Let me know if I'm mixed up. The items already posted look great.

Thanks, Dan McLindon

Hey Team, I will not be able to post anything until some time Saturday. I am stuck in New Jersey begin SAP trained, the most boring place in the world and the most boring topic. I left my flash drive containing my work on my desk at home. Will post Saturday when I return. (work from sections 5 and 6 as posted on board in class). Should I also put together slides etc.... from what we covered in class or is someone else handling that? Tom

Hi Team, sorry I was not at class on Monday. Just getting back to work today after the flu. Please let me know what slides/analysis you need me to do for the Powerpoint and I will get right on it. My cell number is 513-225-4172 and the best email to get me at is ray.moorman@gmail.com

thanks, Ray Moorman



Jeremy - I jotted my detail down as my thoughts came. I didn't edit them yet - I wanted you to see where I was going with the ideas. We can prune them down as I mostly wrote in sentences to capture the full thoughts. I wanted to think through any other ideas moving forward. You had some good ideas in your ppt. Kyle

I added some of my slides. Kyle - give me a call when you start working on this tomorrow, I am struggling with the internal anlysis and want to get your thoughts on it. Thanks, Jeremy

Hi guys, I like what you have both put together so far. I had a couple of thoughts too.

For the internal analysis or strategy piece - do we want to comment on their aggressive expansion and acquistion strategy and how it has negatively impacted their cash position? Also, a possibile internal problem are the growing amount of fixed costs associated with owning and operating these larger WF stores. WF focus in the past seems to have been completely on growing sales volume and number of stores, with little focus on cost control.

Also for recommendations - I agree that they need to stop with trying to rebrand the Wild Oats stores and spending what little cash they. I dont think they can necessarily stop the acquisition, but they could just continue to let the stores operate as Wild Oats or try and sell some of the underperforming properties to raise cash

I also like the idea of continuing to develop brand loyalty with WF organic private label brands. I think that ties in nicely with the idea to reduce prices. WF could also further reduce their costs and the prices they charge to customers buy centralizing buyer efforts in order to gain more power with suppliers.

The last thing I had was to go along with the loyalty shopper program. I think that is a great idea and it would also allow WF to start gathering more customer data, the way that dunnhumby does with Tesco and Kroger. That would allow WF to both target market to loyal customers as well as determine what products and services customers are actually buying, and they could cut those products that are not selling to further reduce costs and overhead.

Let me know what you think and what parts of the PowerPoint you need me to put together.

Thanks, Ray